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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24


THE substitute for the House and Sen
ate anti-polygamy bills. agreed to by the
Senate. and which is now in the hands
of the President for his signature, is a
strong blow at the Mormous. 1t makes
the wife or husband competent wit
ness, but not to be compelled to testify.
Marriages must be recorded by probate
Judges, who are to be appointed by the
President. The church corporation, by
which sums of money have been hoard
ed to promote polygamy,is broken up and
the proceeds given to the public schools.
Illegitimate children cannot inherit any
distributive share 10 the estate OF the
father. Women are disfranchised, and
other radical steps taken to make the
blow effective Should this measure be-
come law. which is more than proba-
BILE, it would seem certain that its strict
enforcement will down polygamy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

Feb. 15.-Senate-Bills passed: 81 B
regulating the duties of viewers of
township roads; S B for publishing vol
ume 6 of the geological survey; 5 b
amending the pharmacy law.
Bills introduced: Amending the town.
ship laws: safe deposit companies to act
as bondsmen in certain cases; authoriZ'
ing county commissioners to employ
persons to discover property for the pur-
pose of taxation ou a commission of 10
per cent,
House-Bills passed: Providing pun
ishment for obtaining fraudulent regis
try OF transfer in any herd book; 81 B
making partial appropriations; senate
joint resolution authorizing the COVER
nor 10 appoint a commission to have
charge Of the Cincinnati centennial ex
position, was adopted, with an amend.
ment requiring that no appropriations
shall be made for the same.
A number of bills were defeated.
Feb. .16-Senate-Bill passed: H re-
pealing the black laws; S B reducing the
number of peremptOry challenges in cap
ital cases from % tn Is; H B for the ap
pointment of librarians in counties con
ties containing law libraries; B pro-
viding more severe penalties for carry'
ing concealed weapons.
Bills introduced: To prevent prefer
ences of creditors in assignments; for
compulsory of o n G on drill
House Bill for the abandonment OF
the Wabash and Erie canal and the six
mile reservoir defeated. yeas 50, ys,3t
| and House took recess with cOnSidera'
tion pending.
Feb. II Senate, Bills passed: 81 b
amending and revising the mechanics
lien law; amending the dairy and
| food commissioner law so as to give
the commissioner three chemists.
Appointments confirmed: W R Ogler
Franklin, member of state board OF
pharmacy for five years; R Brinkerhott
Richlann, and J G Doren, Montgomery
members of the state board of charities
The Albangh school bill was defeated
and the bill for the abandonment of the
Wabash and Erie canal was laid on The
table.
House-Bills passed: Fl B to abandon
the Wabash and Erie canal and six mil'
reservoir in Paulding county.
Feb. 19-Senate, Bills introduced
Amending the statute that the COVER
nor shall not have the power to appoint
lieutenant governor in case of vscan
cy.
House-Bills introduced: increasing
powers of labor statistician; regulating
justices fees as to canvassing of votes
transferring to the general government
the unexpended balance of the Muskin
gum river improvement; for approving
of Jail plans by the state board of chari'
ties; amending mile turnpike act ;rela'
tive to labels on canned syrups.
Feb. 21-Senate, Bills introduced
Amending the color blind railroad Law
30 as to confine it to the colors of red
white. green and blue.
Senator Meredith from the 32d dis
trict took the oath of Office.
House-Bills introduced: Changing
the time for shooting quail so as to pre-
vent killing after December Is; enlarg>
ing the powers of religious associations
for the control of church property; pro
viding the same penalty for attempting
to vote illegally; requiring the establish
ment of children's homes in each county
of the state.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24

ADMIRAL PORTER does not think
much of the idea of protecting our ports
by closing them with torpedoes. Mod
ern artillery has attainedi a range Of as
much as eleven miles, and feet could
lie outside of any possible system of
torpedo defences and knock to pieces
the City Hall of New York or the State
House in Boston with any other prop
erty thereabouts. What the country
needs is feet as we'll as forts.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24
The Responsibility.

1t will be remembered by our readers
that a terrible railroad accident hap
pened on the B & o, near Tifin, a few
weeks ago, when passenger and freight
train collided, killing and manning
about forty persons, smashing a num-
Der of cars, which took fire and cremat-
ed the bodies of those who could not be
extricated from the wreck. The coroner
of Seneca county. has made searching
investigation of the causes and circum-
stances of the disaster and has made a
report, placing the full responsibility
for the accident upon the B & o man.
agement.
The coroner exonerates the conductor
of the passenger train and the engin
eers of both trains, on the grounds that
these men were all overworked. The
conductor of the freight is censured for
negligence, but the great burden of
blame is made to rest upon the com>
pany.
The coroner finds that the railroad
company overworked its employees to
such an extent that they were not capa>
BILE of thorough discharge of their
duties and that the engineer, who, it is
claimed was drunk, was in fact suffer
ing from overwork and was thereby in
some degree incapacitated for duty.
The company is held, therefore, to be
responsible for what occurred.
Not only that, but the company is
found to have had defective brakes on
its cars, aud that it violated the laws of
Ohio in the way it heated its cars and
in using explosive oil for lighting the
ears
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24
A Word About Catarrh.

1t is the mucous membrane, that wonderful semi
fluid evelope surrounding the delicate tissues of the
air and food passages that Cetsrrh makes its strong
hold; once established, it eats into the very vtas
and renders life but long-drswn breath of misery
and disease, dulling the of hearing trammel-
ling the power of speech, destroying the faculty of
smell, tsiRting the breath and killing the refined
pleasures of taste insidously by creaping on from
simple cold in the head, it assails the membranous
lining and envelopes the bones eating through the
delicate coats and causing inflammation, sloughing
and death; nothing short of total eradication will
secure health to the patient and all alternative are
simply procrastinated sufferings leading to fatal
termination. Sanford's Radical cure by inhalation
and by internal administration, has never failed;
even when the disease has made frghtful nroads on
delicate constitutions, hearing smell and taste have
been recovered and disease Thoroughly driven out"
SANFoRD5 RADICAL CURE meets every phase Of
Catarrh, from simple head cold to the most loath-
some and destructive stages. 1t is local and consti-
tutional. Instant in relieving permanent in curing
safe, economical and never-fai1ing.
POTTER DRUG & CHEMICAL Co.. Boston. Mass.
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Probate Court.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following nam
~ ed administrators, executors, guardians as
signees and trustees have filed in my Office at st
C1airsvie, their accounts and vouchers for settle
ment to-wit:
John B. McMechan, guardian of Albert 6. Shaver
minor.
James I. Kelly, executor of James Kelsey, decd
ceased
Robert Clark, admir- of John Garloch, decd
Stephen Hobson, admir- of Isaac Holloway, decd
ALI the above viii be for examination and settle
ment on the 14th day of March, A D. 1887.
27-St ISAAC GASTON, Probate Judge.
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LEGAL NOTICE.

A mn LEWIS, who resides at Oxford,
IA Michigan, G. u. B. Duncan, who resides
at Elmwood, Ills, Jennie Muldoou, Johr
Duncan, Ellen Dillon, Rebecca Burk, William
Hutchison, all of whom reside at Wheeling,
W. Va, Robert D. Crawford. who resides al
Mt. Union, Iowa, Thomas Hutchison, who
resides at Washington, Pa, Robert q. Dun
can, who resides at Pittsburgh, Pa, Mary
Mills, who resides at Laclede, Mo-, James
Mills, who resides at Moundsville, w. Va,
John Logan, David Logan, Mahlon Logan,
Ellen Logan, all of whom reside at Shawnee.
town, Ills, VIM. Duncan, who resides at Chat
tanoogs, Tenn Jane Smith, John Duncan,
Robert Duncan, Jane Duncan, Margaret Dun>
can, Mamie Duncan, Mary st. Clair, Margaret
st. Clair and Jane st. Clair, whose residences
are unknown, and a minor heir of Charles
Duncan, deceased, three minor heirs of VIII
Hanson Duncan, deceased. two heirs Of Robert
G. st. Clair, deceased, and an heir OF John
w. st. CLAIR, deceased, whose names and
places of residence are unknown,
WILL TAKE NOTICE,
That on the I'd day of February, A. D. 1887,
John w. Duncan filed in the court of com
mon pleas of belmont county, Ohio, lis petit
tion in case No. 413T, against the above
named parties and others, praying for par
titi0n, or If partition cannot be made, then
for appraisement and sale of the following
described real estate, tO>wit: Situate in the
county of Belmont, in the stste of Ohio, and
IN the town of st Clalrsville, being lots mum
Der 3, and of Andrew j. McFarland's
addition to the town of st. Clairsville; and
also another tract of land in the aforesaid
town, being part of an out-lot laid out by
Bszell Wells, bounded on the east by the
Warnock pike, on the south bY lands known
as E. L. Burlington and David Darrah, and
on the north by lands of Andrew j. McFar>
land and j. B. Hoge, and on the west by an
alley laid out by said Bazell Wells and this
tract of land is further and particularly de-
scribed as follows: Beginning for the same
at an elm tree; thence south 32e east 72>100
perches; thence north $40 east 1.S0 perches;
thence south $50 east 7.S1 perches; thence
south $40 west SO perches to locust tree;
thence north 500 east 1855 perehes to the
place Of beginning. Also. another tract Of
and, situated in said county of Belmont anc
state Of Ohio, and known ss and being the
quarter of section number l, town.
ship number OF range number 4, and being
he same tract Of land devised by the viii OF
Robt. Duncan therein mentioned and Of which
he died seized Said parties are required to
answer on or before the 26th day Of March,
1887. JOHN W. DUNCAN.
1885, By A. b. 8 W. Mitchell, his Asty's,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24


< IN the March Harper'S. Charles Dad
sIeg' War1ef f5ahlishes his latest impress
ssions of .S5sTi etli industrial aud educa :
-tional progress as gained .ffor. his re-
cent trip with "rhe Harper Party .
through the south. This article pleas
antly supplements and confrms his
paper of two years ago, noting the wonT
derful advances which are transform.
ing The New South" into region Of
great enterprise. Attractive illustrated
articles op this section are special
features of Harper's Weekly and Har-
per's Magazine this year. The April
number of the latter periodical opens
with a splendidly illustrated arti
Gle on Chattanooga" and similar sub.
Jects will have place in each succeed
ing number.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24

! 4 THx West. Virginia Legislature, fol-
Fiowing closely in the wake of the Penn
sylSahis Legislature. has passed a reso>
luton submitting the prohibitory ques-
tfen to vote of the people. A few
years ago the same question was subj
mitted to the people of Ohio, $50 not.
withstandiDg the assertion to the con-
trary efseur political Prohibition friends
+ that nothing in the way of temperance
work can be expected of the old parties,
they do give the voters an opportunity
to amend the Fundamental laws on this
question, to their owp liking.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24
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From the New York Tribune.

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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24

THE Trade Dellar Redemption bill as
finally passedBg Congress will add
about seven million dollars to the silver
scoinage The bill as originally passed
by the Senate provided that the trade
dollars redeemed. should be counted as
part of the purchases of silver bullion
rsd6ffed the Silver Coinage act, which
was ia accord with the policy of the Ad-
fninistratioa The House. which is oPpo-
sssea tothe Goaucial policy of the Admin
F.isfEstfph. however, struck out this pro-
.Sssa aud the:Senate yielded the point.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24
Day and Night

During an acute attack of Bronchitis,
ceaseless tickling in the throat, and an
exhausting, hacking cough, afflict the
sufferer. Sleep is banished, and great
prostration follows. This disease is also
attended with Hoarseness, and some
times Loss Of Voice.. 1t is liable to be-
come chronic, involve the lungs, and
terminate fatally. Ayers Cherry Pecto-
raj affords speedy relief and cure in cases
of Bronchitis. 1t controls the disposition
to cough, and induces refreshing sleep.
1 have been practising physician for
twenty-four years, and, for the past
twelve, have suffered from annual at
tacks of Bronchitis. After exhausting
all the usual remedies
Without Relief,
I tried Ayers Cherry Pectoral. It
effected a speedy cUre.-G. Stoveall,
NJ. D., Carrelltor, Miss.
Ayers Cherry Pectoralis decidedly the
best remedy, within my knowledge, for
chronic Bronchitis, and all lung diseases.
M. A. Rust, NJ d, South Paris, Me.
1 was attacked, last winter, with a
severe Cold, which grew worse and
settled on my Lungs. By night sweats
was reduced alsnOss TO askeleton. My
Cough was incessant, and 1 frequently
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give up business, or I would not live
month. After taking various remedies
without relief, I was finally
Cured BY Using
two bottles of Ayers Cherry Pectorai.
am now in perfect health, and able to
resume business, after having been pro-
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S. P. Henderson, Saulsburgl, Penn.
For years I was in . decline had
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relief. Edward L. Curtis, Rutland, Vt.
Two years ago suffered from severe
Bronchitis. The physician attending
me became fearful that the disease would
terminate in Pneumonia. After trying
various medicines, without benefit, he
prescribed Ayers Cherry Pectoral,
which relieved me at once. I continued
to take this medicine, and was cured.
Ernest Cotton, Logansport, Ind.
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24
Legal Notice.

RANT GIBSON, Milton Gibson, Samuel Glib
" son, Alice Gibson, Harry Gibson and Edward
Gibson, who are minors and reside at Derry post
office, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, will
take notice. that on the 28th day of December A. d.
1885 Rebecca A. Dyson filed in the court of common
pleas Of Belmont county, Ohio, "a petition against
Eliza Wertz ct al for the partition of certain real
estate situate in the town Of st. Clairsvlle in said
county and being part of lot number 81, and fully
described in said petition, on file in the clerks
1881 the defendants d. s. Gibson and others fled
a oross-petition in said action making said Grant
Gibson and others (above mentioned) parties to
said action and they required to answer to said
cross-petiton or before the 9th day of April 1887.
Harper Scarf Il Miner, Dallas Albert and A.
H. 4 W. Mitchell, Att'ys for Defts, d. s. Gibson,
OF al. 217-6t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24
Legal Notice.

ITO MARY (. LATHAM, Jerusalem, Monroe Co.,
i Ohio, Henry c. Caldwell, Hebron, Nebraska
Ada Ranney, Anthony, Kansas-You are each notih-
ed that on the ID day of February. 1881 admins
traitor OF the estate OF Nancy s. Caldwell deceased
filed with the probate coart of said county, q
claim against said estate evidenced by apromissory
note, Of date Of November 10th, 1878, calling for
$780, with interest at per cent and ask said court
stated, as a valid claim against said estate Said
claim will be for hearing the 11th day of March,
1887. A. H. CALDWELL
asst Admir- Of estate of Nancy 8. Caldwell, decd.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24

Ans.-Hard. as in gar.
Greatly Excited.

Not few of the citizens OF st. Clairsville
have recently become greatly excited over the
astounding facts that several of their friends
who had been pronounced by their physicians
as incurable and beyond all hope-suffering
with that dreaded monster consumption
have been completely cured by DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, the only
remedy that does positively cure all throat
and lung diseases, coughs, colds, asthma and
bronchitis. Trial bottles free at Patterson G.
Sons drug store; large bottles 81.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24

FACTS brought to light by the Senate
committee which is investigating the
Texas election outrages of last fall, by
which several negroes were hanged and
others driven from their homes, take
rank with the infamies of the K1klux.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24

A FEATURE OF the south Boston
strike, was a plot to demolish street
car on line whose employees went on a
strike. by a bombardment of cobble-
stones and brick-bats from tall tene-
ment house. where thousands of the
missiles had been stored for the purpose,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24
ma, took The Mormon side.

a CORRESPONDENCE of the New York
Tribune has made personal inyestiga-
teH of some of the stories which have
teacasd the east, of cattle dying on the
Eains of starvation and cold, and his
ETeport is Verse than anything hereto
fore told. Along the western slope of
1e.ths; Black Hills and, on the plains Of
.sEastefn Wyoming are thousands of
{ dead cattle frozen stiff, lying or stand
4 ing, sing.g or in groups, just as they
: died of hunger and bitter cold lin the
deep snow.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24

Governor Foraker holds that the Ohio
constitution provides for the election of
a president of the senate 10 case of the
resignation of the lieutenant governor
and that the president so elected be.
comes by virtne of such election and
such Office the lieutenant governor.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24

An Alliance saloon>keeper undertook
to do up" one of the temperance fans
ties of that town and learned the lesson
that temperance people sometimes have
healthy reserve of muscular Christiani-
ty. The Tanner was thoroughly tanned.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24
A Remedy for Lung Diseases.

DR.. Robert Newton, late president of the
Electic College, of the city of New York, and
formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, used Or. VIM.
HALLS tialsam very extensively in bis practice,
as many of his patients, now living, and re-
stored to health by the use of the this inval>
usble medicine, can amply testify; he always
said that so good a remedy ought to be pre-
scribed freely by every physician as a sover-
eign remedy in all cases of lung diseases; it
cures consumption, and has no equal for all
pectoral complaints. 2 17s4t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24

AYERS Sarsaparllla is the best medi
cine for every one in the spring Emf.
grants and travellers will find i: an effec
tual cure for the eruptions. boils, pim>
pies. eczemas. etc, that break out on the
skin-the effects of disorders In the
blood. caused by sea diet and life on
board ship.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24

The governor of New York, does not
believe in making death painless for
men who don't stop to consider the
amount of pain they infiet Of the world
A good stout hemp rope. in his opinion
is the thing for murderers.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24

The House committee on Invalid
Pensions, has unanimously recommends
ed the passage of the Dependent Pen
sions bill over the Presidents veto. The
bill was passed by majority of both
parties. yet it is scarcely probable that
two-thirds of each House will unite in
overruling the veto.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24

The Pension Bureau at Washington,
is calling for larger force of clerks. In
the last presidential campaign one of
the reform" cries was for a reduction
of the number of clerks in the Depart
ments.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24

OUR own Silver William Warner was
one of the forty men in the House of
Representatives who voted against the
anti-polygamy bill, which has gone to
the President. Three more Ohio Dem
ocrsts Hill, LeFevre and Foran, were
also of the number. But one RepGbli>
can, @. .Hara. the colored Representative
witfr IN Irish name, from North Caroli-
M took the Mormon aida ls.-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24

A DEMOCRATIC paper has discovered
that party cannot live Oh vetoes that
consign the helpless defenders of the
nation to perpetual poverty and snf
fering